Jacob Creech
@jacobvcreech
VP Tech @ Solana Foundation
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What do you want to learn more about on Solana?
We have potentially big upcoming votes coming to Solana soon
- SGP
- Disinflation
- Resource and Inclusion fee
All powered by Solana Governance
Solana <> AI is going to happen in a big way
We're cooking up something special
🔜
4.2 release schedule is now available:
Features staged for activation in August:
- 200ms slot times
- Larger transactions
- Rent reduction
1/ Agave 4.0 is now recommended for mainnet validators. XDP for Turbine, QUIC-only TPU ingestion, faster replay stage, and a long list of feature-gated SIMDs activating during the cycle. Here's what's changing 🧵
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This past week alone on Solana we had:
- >$450M stablecoins growth
- P-token upgrade freeing up ~12% blockspace
- Perps volume up 83%
All while having major tech tooling improvements by teams like @blueshift and @temporal_xyz.
Another big week for Solana.
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Solana devs
Are you aware of agave updates? Do you actively track them? Do you care?
What advice would you have for developers that are starting out?
“Contributing to open source.“
@wjthieme, Head of Engineering at @orca_so, on the value of having open source work to show.
Check out the full episode with @nocircuit 👇
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thought id share what's in the works:
@SolanaFndn and i are working to get Solana Changelog back online!
i've always thought that my weekly newsletter belonged somewhere better. so i reached out to @jacobvcreech and now we're making it happen
no final date yet on when changelog is getting back online, but you should see it soon 🎉 more media to come on top of the news as well. will be sure keep you posted!
thank you to everyone who's read the newsletter the past several months. with this new change, you'll have an ever better experience
cheers!
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How about June?
I built an app that lets you send a private payment on Solana in 5 different ways
You can learn
- How they work
- Their privacy guarantees
- Their tradeoffs and timings
Go test it and let me know what you think! Link in comment 👇
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Since we are all not yet bullish enough. The new token program had a new batch transfer where you can do 42 transfers in just 21k CU.
If you are running an explorer or indexing make sure to parse these as well.
Code can be found here:
import { parseBatchInstruction } from '@solana-program/token';
"@solana-program/token": "0.13.0"
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Introducing P-Token from @anza_xyz. Now live on mainnet.
